Quotes About Progress

At the end of every bad road, a good road begins. It is always so.

America was being replaced by a new source of wisdom

one generation is the philosophy of government

This is my daily work . . . When I accomplish something, I write a * line that day. Whenever a bug / missing feature is mentioned during the day and I don't fix it, I make a note of it. Some things get noted many times before they get fixed. Occasionally I go back through the old notes and mark with a + the things I have since fixed.

John Carmack was a late talker. His parents were concerned until one day in 1971, when the fifteen-month-old boy waddled into the living room holding a sponge and uttered not just a single word but a complete sentence: "Here's your loofah, Daddy." It was as if he didn't want to mince words until he had something sensible to say.

Please keep turning your dreams in for new ones.

I can teach you to jump up in five seconds-it takes years to learn how to land properly.

this might be the happy ending without the ending

We know that some of you are still scared. We know that some of you are still silent. Just because it's better now doesn't mean that it's always good.

In school, the year was the marker. Fifth grade. Senior year of high school. Sophomore year of college. Then after, the jobs were the marker. That office. This desk. But now that school is over and I've been working at the same place in the same office at the same desk for longer than I can truly believe, I realize: You have become the marker. This is your era. And it's only if it goes on and on that will have to look for other ways to identify the time.

Make more than dust.

If you play your cards right, the next generation will have so much more than you did.

your life isn't out there waiting, so don't think all you have to do is find it and get it. no, your life is right here. and, yeah, it sucks. lives usually do. so if you want things to change, you don't need to get a life. you need to get off your ass.

You don't realize - the great thing about change is how quickly we get used to it. So I'm not complaining. the more things change,the more they don't stay the same. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. They might not change everywhere all at once - but there are moments when the impossible becomes the inevitable, and the rest is just a matter of time.

Things rarely get fixed the way they need to be.

i have to cross the river of extreme awkwardness in order to get to the paradise on the other side.

Gone is not forgotten, but our lives cannot be a memorial. This city cannot be a memorial. This city has to be a city. Our lives have to be our lives.

I text tiny a minute later. MADE NEW GAY FRIEND. And he texts back PROGRESS!!!

And after the end?Another beginning.

It's goodbye to some things. And hello to others.

Fade to black. Or whatever color you like. If you can find a way to fade to pink or purple, please do.

Years into days. Days into hours. Hours into minutes. Minutes into moments. Moments into possibility.

Once the storm comes out, the landscape changes. What you had before is altered in some way. And you have a choice: build something new and better from what is left or abandon it.

I was sixteen and equipped with the appropriate genitalia, so I cleared that hurdle nicely.